I woke up to a grey miserable day, but I'm short on weekends now so cannot wait for a sunny day to visit some of the historic houses that only open on weekends. Today I am going up past Harlem to some more little explored historic areas, just to get a feel for the neighbourhoods. I stop for brunch first on the upper west side as I have heard good things about the food here - and quickly find a buzzing restaurant serving organic fresh food called spring, and I ...

One of the joys of catching the subway is all the performers at the different stations. Today the black acapella group were performing on the shuttle train to Times Square. Then the ebony hillbillies were playing up such a storm on the concourse that they had people dancing. My favourite today is the Mexican group performing on the A station, their music is always so happy! I am going way north on manhattan island to Inwood. What's at Inwood? First of all a wi...